Wringer



Dec. 15, 193 'w. L. KAUFFMAN. 2D I ,0

WRINGER Filed May 11, 1933 BY 7 2 Kw A TTORNEYS.

Patented Dec. 15, 1936 UNITED STATES PTENT oF-FicE WRINGER Application May 11, 1933, Serial No. 670,465

8 Claims.

Wringers are commonly supplied with water boards. The more common of these water boards extends under the rolls and extends to the front and rear of the wringer. Usually these water boards are flanged along their edges enough to turn the water at the edges. The open space at the ends of the water board has permitted the clothes being operated upon to extend over the ends and by the corners and in consequence there has been some danger from the catching of the clothes at the ends of the water board and from the slopping of water by the clothes over the ends. The presentinvention is designed to obviate this by providing end portions on the water board which extend upwardly to the bite of the wringer and thus form efiectual guards against the accidental movement of the clothes over the end and also against any abnormal slopping of the water. In forming these water boards with these extended upward portions it is desirable and is a feature of the invention to form the board in sections so they may be readily put in place under the rolls and in a broad sense this manner of assembling and arranging the water board is desirable generally. It is preferable to supply the wringer with guide plates leading to the bite of the rolls and in the present invention this is arranged between the up-turned portions of the water board and preferably it is secured with the same securing means as the water board. Features and details of the invention will appear more fully from the specification and claims.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing as follows:

Fig. 1 shows a front elevation of the wringer with the board in place.

Fig. 2 a section on the line 22 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 a section on the line 3-3 in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 a section on the line 44 in Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 a perspective View of the end of the drip board.

Fig. 6 a perspective view of a lower corner of one of the drip board sections.

Fig. '7 a detached View of a side of a guard plate showing the attaching means for the guide and water boards, the attaching portions of the guide and water boards being in section.

The wringer frame has a base i, side stiles 2 and a top 3. It is provided with rolls 4 and 5 and the usual operating mechanism. Guide plates 6 are provided at each end of the wringer rolls in the usual manner and these are slotted at l and have struck up in them lips 8 which form pintles for securing the water board and guide plates. A water board 9 is made in two sections, each section having a bottom 9a with up-turned ends I0. These ends may be fashioned to close around the guide plates and have inwardly extending ears I! at their upper ends with perforations I2. These upward projections are sufliciently resilient to permit the springing of the ears past the lips 8 so that the sections may be detachably secured to the frame through the medium of the guide plates. The edges of these upwardly extending ends are rolled at 13 and the front edge at M. The upwardly extending end portions form guards which more definitely guide the clothes away from the ends of the board and prevent to a very large extent the catching of the clothes on the board and any slopping of water past the end of the board. The abutting edges of the sections and the flanges under the rolls have the up-turned flanges I5 which guard the movement of water to and through this line of separation. The up-turned portions have projections at a lower level under the rolls terminating in ears l6. These ears have detents ll pressed in them and are slotted from the up-turned flange portion at l8 so that these ears may be resilient and this permits of the overlapping of the ears of the two sections and thus forms a means for detachably securing the sections together along the line of separation under the rolls. It will be noted that the bottom 9a is inclined outwardly downward terminating in the drip edge 14 so that the water is conducted away from the rolls and that the drip edge is spaced outwardly from the rolls. A drip board l9 has up-turned flanges 20 at the ends with pintles 2! formed in these flanges. These pintles extend through openings 22 in the ears I6. In assembling the drip board it is placed between the ears of one of the sections before the assembly of the section and then as the sections are put in place the ears of the other section sprung over the section carrying the drip board.

It is preferable to supply a guide plate leading to the bite of the rolls. In this structure a guide plate 23 has up-turned ends 24 which conform to the end portions IU of the water board. These up-turned ends 24 have ears 25 with perforations 26 and these upturned portions are sufficiently resilient to permit of springing the ears 25 over the pintles 8 so as to secure the guide plate in place. The drip board has a projection 19a at its center which yieldingly engages the up-turned flanges l5 and so yieldingly locks the drip board in either tilted position. Where the upwardly extending ends are of greater dimension than the space between the base and the lower roll the separable board below the roll has significance in that this separation permits the two parts of the water board to be assembled one part from each side of the wringer.

What I claim as new is:-

1. In a wringer, the combination of a frame; rolls mounted in the frame; and a water board, said water board being made in sections detachably directly secured together below the rolls, said sections having up-turned portions at their ends extending into overlapping relation and secured to the frame.

2. In a wringer, the combination of a frame; rolls mounted in the frame; and a water board, said water board being made in sections detachably secured together below the rolls, said sections having up-turned portions at their ends extending into overlapping relation and secured to the frame and said overlapping portions being resilient and detachably secured together through the resilient action of the overlapping portions.

3. In a wringer, the combination of a frame; rolls mounted in the frame; and a water board, said water board being formed in sections having up-turned end portions extending to the bite of the rolls and suspended by the up-turned portions to the frame, said up-turned portions being resilient and made detachable through the yielding of the up-turned portions, said upturned portions having projections extending below the rolls into overlapping relation, said projections being resilient and detachable through the yielding of said projections.

4. In a wringer, the combination of a frame; rolls mounted in the frame; a water board secured in the frame, said water board extending below the rolls and having end portions extending upwardly to the bite of the rolls; and a clothes guide leading to the bite and extending between the up-turned ends of the water board.

5. In a wringer, the combination of a frame; rolls mounted in the frame; a water board secured in the frame, said water board extending below the rolls and having end portions extending upwardly to the bite of the rolls; and a clothes guide leading to the bite and extending between the up-turned ends of the water board, side guide having up-turned ends conforming to the up-turned ends of the board.

6. In a wringer, the combination of a frame; rolls mounted in the frame; a Water board secured in the frame, said water board extending below the rolls and having end portions extending upwardly to the bite of the rolls; a clothes guide leading to the bite and extending between the up-turned ends of the water board, said guide having up-turned ends conforming to the up-turned ends of the board; and a common means securing the water board and guide.

'7. In a wringer, the combination of a frame; rolls mounted in the frame; a water board secured in the frame, said water board extending below the rolls and having end portions extending upwardly to the bite of the rolls; and a clothes guide leading to the bite and extending between the up-turned ends of the Water board, said guide having up-turned ends conforming to the up-turned ends of the board, said upturned ends and guide being resilient and having perforations at their upper ends; and a pintle on the frame on to which the up-turned portions may be sprung for detachably securing the board and guide to the wringer.

8. In a wringer, the combination of a frame comprising a base and side stiles; rolls mounted in the side stiles; and a Water board secured to the frame and extending to the front and rear of the wringer, and between the base and the lower roll, said board being made in sections separable below the lower roll, and each section having end portions extending upwardly to the level of the bite of the rolls, the upwardly extending portions being greater than the space between the lower roll and the base of the frame and forming water deflecting side walls at the ends of the board, and each section of the board being inclined outwardly and downwardly to a drip edge spaced outwardly from the roll.

WALTER L. KAUFFMAN, II. 

